--- title: A rainbow forms when sunlight goes into raindrops, bends and comes b… — Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries… · tree and pragmatics description: A rainbow forms when sunlight goes into raindrops, bends and comes back out split into colours, so to watch a rainbow you stand with the sun behind you and look towards the rain. Who acts: rainbow, sunlight, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rainbow, sunlight, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:0 # text = A rainbow forms when sunlight goes into raindrops, bends and comes back out split into colours, so to watch a rainbow you stand with the sun behind you and look towards the rain. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rainbow rainbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 forms form VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 5 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 raindrops raindrop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 back back ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 out out ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 split split VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp 16 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 rainbow rainbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 behind behind ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj 33 towards towards ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **form** | present | a rainbow | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | present | sunlight | | | raindrops | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into raindrop=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **bend** | present | sunlight *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come back** | present | a rainbow *not said here* | | | | | out *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **split** | participle | a rainbow *not said here* | | | | | into colours *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into colour=Result | | 6 | **watch** | to-infinitive | | a rainbow | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rainbow=Theme | | 7 | **stand** | present | you | | | | | with the sun; behind you | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind you=Location | | 8 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | towards the rain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards rain=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:0`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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